FACES IN THE CROWD

JENNINGS BOYDNORTHFORK, W. VA.Boyd, 47, has coached Class AA Northfork High to eight consecutive state basketball titles, a national record. His teams, 307-62 since 1966, have won 62 straight home games and the state tournament's sportsmanship award eight times.

JENNY STORMSCOLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.Jenny, a third-grader at Skyway Elementary who took up skiing when she was 5, won the 9-and-under slalom, giant slalom and dual slalom titles at the Rocky Mountain region's Junior Olympics competition in Winter Park, Colo.

BERNIE BROWNBETHLEHEM, PA.Brown, 18, finished his wrestling career at Bethlehem Catholic with 77 consecutive wins, 52 on pins, and two state 185-pound titles. The only points scored on him in 37 matches this season were three takedowns and one reversal.

Love, hate, anger and some inspired play by two young forwards—series MVP Cedric Maxwell and Larry Bird—enabled the Celtics to defeat the Rockets and revive a Boston tradition: winning the NBA championship

Jones, 38, and Carow, 44, won the men's and women's senior titles at a national amateur racquetball championship in Anaheim, Calif. Jones, a three-time national titlist and a former Hollywood stunt man, defeated Ed Remen of Sterling, Va. 6-15, 15-5, 15-4 in the finals. Carow, an insurance saleswoman who has won eight Illinois amateur crowns, beat Gerri Stoffregen of Cincinnati 12-15, 15-11, 15-10 for her third United States senior singles championship.

DALE JENKINSABILENE, TEXASDale, a senior at Abilene Christian High School, pole-vaulted 17'5¼" to break by 7¼" the state high school mark set in 1977 by current NCAA outdoor champ Randy Hall of Texas A&M. Only three high school vaulters have done better.